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thanks for the spoil...

it reminds me of murakami thanking his translators when he received the Frank Kafka award (said it was thanks to their work that he even received the award). it shows the importance of translation in art

You're right. I think the 'problem' with translating chinese lines like those is that they're really short, but the meaning is long so to give a good corresponding subtitle in the same lenght is hard. If you translate 4-5 characters (so 4-5 sounds) in a long sentence, as a subtitle it doesn't really makes sense and it takes you out. Translators have a hard job...

"they have one job and that job is beach" you got me wheezing there

why was he so mean to his own son from the getgo, what did the child do :'(

I understood it as "as the world is set to push me to my demise, i will not fight it", but I might be wrong. (They also never explained why he survived his execution...)

what is the reason for the break up in the novel? 🤔

I was a bit scared cause it's quite similar to what she did to Yan Lin in the first life, so I fear the consequences.... :/

Their relationship reminds me of Cheng Shao Shang and her mother's relationship in Love Like the Galaxy, quite similar! And it took a long time for the awful mother to come around there, so I'm not expecting anything from Ning's mother.

Dang everyone is so ruthless, even in love!
Seems like we'll suffer really soon....

Seems like there is a special episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chcXNknWZEw

Yeah i read the book, so I kinda knew what was going on but...in the series so many things are unexplained! And Yai at the end sounds like he's just immortal and been waiting here for a hundred years.
I think it must be really confusing for the people that didn't read the book

why...was the ending so confusing? Is their still a last episode after this or something?

I personally really liked the ending, but why was it so ruuushed... They shouldn't have dragged ep 29 and give more awaken time in episode 30...

This was a really great series! The acting was impeccable, the story compelling albeit slow-paced.
I was not ready for it to tackle grief so profoundly well, the synopsis was misleading for making it sound like an horror comedy.
The only thing that was not really to my liking was the separation of the two narrative arcs: first the relationship of the main leads for the first half of the series, then handling the family situation for the last few episodes. I think it would have been way more natural and powerful if both were mixed up, the leads seemed like secondary characters for the 3 last episodes.

Seems that the relationship needs to be maintained for 5 years at all cost. If it's not, the side that's the cause of the break up forfeits the land. So if Yi cheats, it's the chen's fault and Diao's family gets the racing circuit. It's complete bullshit, like if they just normally don't like eachother anymore during those 5 years, are they forced to stay together for money?
So I guess that's why Yi said his father said he HAD to love Diao.

If I remember corretly initially it was supposed to be a tiger, but they changed to a dog in cutie pie (for budget reasons I suppose). Now that they have the budget, I guess they changed it back to a tiger. I personally prefer this as it is more dramatic (and faithful to the original work) and a reference to Yi that is always refered to as a 'tiger'.
And yes, not those poor tigers in Unforgotten Night!

It's a good think! It completely takes me out everytime ^^"
The worst was when Lee Hyun was taking Kim An back to his home...It was terrible

The serie was pretty good, but the amount of boom pole shots in this show was amazing!

Not the best quality but it's on dailymotion